Crafts for the garden, made with their own hands, can be mastered by both adults and children. You can look at the photo to understand that such products can be made from any materials: plastic bottles, wood, waste material, which was cheaply sold at a store. Although, without understandable workshops and tips in the manufacture of products from improvised materials, of course, it will be difficult.
There is always the opportunity today to go to the nearest store to buy a garden gnome or another sculpture for the garden. Of course, it will decorate the site, but it will look standard, unlike do-it-yourself materials for creativity do-it-yourself. Even small products made for the summer cottage area with their own hands look much more beautiful. Just look at the photo to understand that you can make true masterpieces yourself. They are suitable for both small cottages and for vast free space.
Advice! Remember that crafts for the garden, made of wood or other materials with your own hands can be not only decorative in nature and delight the eye. Many products about which, including speech (with a photo) will be discussed in this material, have quite understandable practical significance.
For the manufacture of small or large-scale crafts for the garden, you can use a variety of improvised materials. It can be not only new, but also already in use materials that, as a result of the creative process, will gain a second life. The use of second raw materials is not only practical, but also beneficial from an environmental point of view.
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What materials can you make do-it-yourself crafts at the cottage:
1. Old vehicles (see photo) that are no longer on the move. It's not only tires or tiresbut also an old bike, scooter or even a falling wooden cart. You can decorate everything with paints to your taste.
2. The remains of any building materials: polystyrene and brick, cement or glass, polyurethane foam, gypsum, stones, even wood products (see photo) look very impressive.
3. Capacities like cans and bottles, do-it-yourself crafts from plastic bottles look great. But it can also be adapted for flower beds, for example, old pots, troughs and even barrels, cans.
4. Old furniture can be used to create interesting decorative crafts. These are cases and dressers, bedside tables and chairs, whatnots and even an old dressing table, which, as it seemed earlier, has a place only in a landfill.
5. Do not bypass unsuitable paintings, chandeliers or sconces. For the manufacture of decorative ornaments on the site with their own hands, they will also be able to play the faithful service.
6. Pay attention to old shoes, clothes, bags and bags, caps, which will be a great addition to many products from plastic bottles.
Advice! Regardless of the material chosen, whether it be small or small crafts, it is imperative to work with auxiliary tools. A photo and a detailed description of the process will help to understand what exactly to prepare, but it can be scotch tape, rope, marker, cords, wire, glue (for plastic products).
Add childish fantasy
It doesn’t matter if products are made of wood, plastic bottles, tires or other material - if there are children in the family, you should definitely call them for help. Because, children's imagination has no boundaries and often it is children who help to look at very familiar objects from an unusual side.Plus, to create decorative summer cottage crafts with your own hands, you can use children's things and decorate them with different crafts.
If you put in the country house just a figure of some animal or insect, it will delight the eye. If you make a bird feeder, flowerbed, watering can or broom - it will turn out not only beautifully, but also useful, not only to decorate the site, but also to benefit.
From plastic containers
Now the most popular are crafts for summer cottages, which you can make with your own hands from plastic bottles of different volumes. Usually, there are many such bottles in the country and the owner does not know what to do with them. The advantages of plastic precisely for such work include lightness, ductility, fusibility.
For example, the bottom of the bottle can be used as a container for a flower bed or for seedlings. Vessels of five liters or more can be used as washstands. Spray nozzle can be obtained by putting a hose on the bottle. Having made a hole in the lid, you can get an excellent watering can for the garden with a convenient handle. From a plastic bottle, you can make a practical and convenient bird feeder for the winter.
Advice! Do-it-yourself plastic bottles on the site can create borders for beds, flower beds or walkways. It is necessary to cut off the narrow part of the bottle and insert it into the ground. Borders with accurate work will get the correct and symmetrical shape.
Yet from plastic bottles can be made special protective covers that will protect the locks from rain and snow. As a result, this will extend the life of the castles and save the budget, while decorating the site with interesting details.
Car tires
From small car tires, you can make a variety of crafts, and what can we say about the large diameter. Tires are used, most often, in the construction of fences, beds or ponds. This material is easy to cut and dye. Thanks to various photos and schemes, you can make various animals or birds from tires. Hanging flower pots based on this material will look original, simple and practical.
Advice! From old clothes you can make a scarecrow for the garden. In addition to the fact that a native resident will appear on the site, the scarecrow will also be used for practical purposes, driving birds away from the site.
What should be considered when making crafts for the summer residence:
1. When the sketch is thought out, it is necessary to estimate in advance how children will react to innovation. Will they like a big woman in the garden. It is also worth taking into account the neighbors, so that the know-how in your garden does not cause them to want to mess up.
2. You can find various options for musical crafts, but they are relevant only if the site is located on a farm or at the edge of the forest, that is, there are no neighbors nearby.
3. When creating a craft that will be in the fresh air, it must be borne in mind that it will be washed by rains, blow the wind and soon the material will lose its original appearance. So, in advance you need to think through every detail, and also evaluate how much the craft will be subject to restoration.
4. Think about how and what to further decorate the craft: paints are bought resistant, be sure to apply several layers of protective varnish.
From this material it becomes clear how different in form, depending on the material, crafts for giving from improvised objects can be. But it doesn’t matter if they are made of wood, tires or plastic bottles, with the right and accurate, competent approach, everything will surely work out.
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